New Exhibit Just Announced

The Melinda Camber Porter Archive is proud to announce the University of South Dakota's Melinda Camber Porter Exhibition of Art, Books and Film, September 19 until October 14, 2016.


This USD Exhibition is the first time, that all 90 Luminous Bodies watercolors and 27 Triptych oil paintings art series are presented in one venue, along with her books and films. This is made possible by the University of South Dakota community and their expansive John A Day Gallery and Exhibition Hall.

Luminous Bodies Series are works of celebration and mourning with 90 watercolors. These images explore the spiritual and cultural forces that continuously vie to originate and then heal the rift between the body and the soul.

“In order to produce art like Luminous Bodies you have to be like William Blake, absolutely fearless.” RobinHamlyn (Senior Curator, Tate Britain).
 
The Triptych Series are 27 large oils on canvas exploring the triptych form as both altarpiece and sculptural shape. 

Peter Trippi, editor of Fine Art Connoisseur states, “In an art market crowded with hollow protestations of “self-identity,” Melinda Camber Porter’s works offer us a new cosmology and an authentic vision of our


John A Day Gallery and Exhibition Hall
University of South Dakota
414 E. Clark Street, Vermillion, SD 57069
Contact: Michelle St. Vrain, 605-677-3177